Also in Toronto are the annual downtown Cavalcade of Lights and the Winter Light Exhibition, until March 17, at Ontario Place on the lakefront.

Joining Mother Nature’s wintry creations, Ontario Place is featuring “creativity, innovation, light and discovery” by creators from all artistic streams showcasing their exhibits on the curatorial theme of “disruptive engagement.”

Lighting up the spirits the Distillery District will be all alight from Jan. 19 to March 3 for the Toronto Light Festival.

It will transform the historic attraction “into one of the largest open-air sculpture galleries in North America,” said publicist Samiha Fariha.

There will be more than 35 light art installations from local and international artists.

Works include rainbows, polar bears, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the meaning of life, created by artists from Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

Lighting up the night and day, the festival will run daily and is free to the public.

“Our goal is to make people smile during our coldest months of the year,” said festival executive director Mathew Rosenblatt. torontolightfest.com

Lights on!

In what’s called an extravaganza of extravagant lighting festivals surrounding one of the world’s natural wonders, the Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls is just that.

The “most-enchanting of Niagara attractions,” this Ontario Power Generation event attracts 1.3-million visitors for the spectacular light displays.

There’s the Fallsview Sound and Light show, Holiday Lights tours and some three-million lights displayed along the Niagara Parkway, Dufferin Islands and Niagara Falls now through Jan. 31. wfol.com

Another bright idea

An even-brighter version of a holiday tradition is at Bingemans amusement park and campground in Kitchener.

The Gift of Lights, an illuminated two-kilometre drive through the grounds, has views of static and animated displays and one-million twinkling lights.

New this year, nightly until Jan. 5, is a second huge drive-through light tunnel.

Highlighting the drive are Christmas classic songs being played on Gift of Lights radio at 100.1 FM. bingemans.com

Alight at Night at Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg through Jan. 5 has more than one-million lights that illuminate this recreated 19th century settler village with carriage rides, feasts and special events. uppercanadavillage.com

Lumina Borealis at Fort Henry in Kingston — open nightly until Jan. 5, 2019 — is a “totally immersive experience called a “walk-in fairy tale told in light that makes the massive grey granite walls of the fort melt away.” luminaborealis.com

The Festival of Lights Celebration in Goderich, until Jan. 8, has a “Peppermint Twist” theme, while the Celebration of Lights in Sarnia and Light up the Hills in Georgetown both end on Jan. 1.

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